Sorry, I introduced a mistake im my post: HMS Clio kicked Malvinas Governor´s J. Vernet in 1833 not 1883!
My fault.
Since then, and until today, the Argentine Goverment, every year, submited a protest note, to the UK and, from 1945, to the UN.
So, from an argentinian aspect of the problem, it´s about an illegitime attack and seizure of territory, by a foreing power.
(Similar problemas around the globe: Think about the Kurile Islands, Japan and Russia. Japan still claims the islands were it´s territory, and the usurpation was 60 years ago.)
And about the war, I know some veterans (a couple of Infantry army officers and navy personnel). Yes, as lesrae said, they are reluctant to talk about the war. But If I could extract some from the books, I think the most important lessons from the war were:
1) Technology means a lot in modern warfare (SHAR´s with winders won the aerial war, and SUE´s with Exocets ruled the sea)
2) Good training and motivation is the other half of the equation (I could think in Royal Marines, Paras, Royal Artillery, Argentine Air Force)
3) Back in the 80´s, UK girls were ugly (al least those filmed in the piers when HMS Invincible sailed to the south)
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